Digital systems over the cloud, IoT improves business KPI efficiency, customer experience, investor ROI, productivity, and cost efficiency, it also significantly amplifies the cyber threat space for cybersecurity professionals to cope with.
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Critical infrastructure serves as the backbone supporting the essential daily services of (to name a few) energy, healthcare, finance, transportation, and communications that keep civilisation moving. These services are so critical that their disruption would have a debilitating effect on the national economy, security, public health and safety, or any combination thereof. For example, much of the $25 trillion-plus US economy relies on critical infrastructure services. According to views reported by economists to the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), delays caused by traffic congestion alone cost the US economy over $90 billion a year in the last five years, whereas flight delays resulted in the US economy incurring losses of over $35 billion a year for the last five years.
Much of modern critical infrastructure in developed and developing nations is driven by digital systems over the cloud, IoT, operational technology…
